When was cafod formed

Salala Resettlement Area. Maura is a doctor and Medical Missionary of Mary. She started her overseas work in Africa specialising in public and community health. After nine years and a short period in New York she moved back into emergency work taking up the health and nutrition advisor post in CAFOD's mandate dictates that it work in both relief and development and works through implementing partners.

For example, Islamic Relief have recently been an important partner in Ingushettia. The emergency support section was only set up in the last 5 years.

The section has a Strategic Framework with a set of goals, objectives and indicators for monitoring achievements. There is also an emergency handbook which sets out principles, procedures and guidelines for emergency responses. For example, there is a set of questions that have been designed to determine at what level CAFOD should respond when considering an emergency.

If CAFOD is considering a corporate response then the curiously named 'Bubbling Emergency Group' is convened to reach decisions and take forward the response. ESS support to partners can take a variety of forms such as making joint assessments in the initial stages of an emergency, providing specific technical inputs, working together to set standards and develop indicators with which to monitor and review the impact of the work and undertaking capacity building particularly in protracted emergencies.

The ESS are involved in a range of emergency sectors including food and nutrition activities. CAFOD does not purchase or shift food. They supply funds to local partners to purchase food and depend on partners to identify the best type of response in a food emergency. CAFOD supports a range of food and nutrition activities including general rations, supplementary feeding, food for work and cash for work, seeds and tools programmes and agricultural rehabilitation.

CAFOD also devotes a lot of resources to providing technical support for their partners who may have steep learning curves to go through. At the same time Maura was at pains to point out that working through local church-based organisations can have enormous benefits. This has led to activities like reducing soil erosion through terracing, reclaiming gullies and promoting horticulture. Maura believes that without the infrastructure of the church and local trust in it, this type of longer-term activity would not have been possible.

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